Word: mel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Mel Apt was ready for his first flight, the X-2 had gone through her paces 20 times at the hands of other pilots; they knew her whims and fancies so well that the testers decided it was unnecessary for Apt to make the once routine series of dead-stick glide tests before he was allowed to cut in the rockets. So at 30,000 feet over Edwards one day last week, Test Pilot Apt was dropped in the X-2 from the belly of a B50 bomber. Smoothly, he touched off the rocket engines and roared up into...
...Peace. An uneven but brilliantly pictorial treatment of Tolstoy's great novel, with some of the best battle pieces ever seen on film; with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer (TIME, Sept...
...forced to work with his character's huge and clumsy exterior. But Fonda too possesses a lot of talent, and he demonstrates just how much of an art an actor, naturally trained to move smoothly, can make of moving without grace. The least satisfactory of the starring trio is Mel Ferrer, who displays more stiffness than grandeur. As portrayed by Oscar Homolka, the Russian commander, General Kutuzov, has considerably more moral force, particularly in a scene where he thanks God for the delivery of his country from danger after Napoleon withdraws from Moscow...
...Peace. An uneven but pictorial treatment of Tolstoy's novel, with some of the best battle pieces ever seen on film; with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer (TIME, Sept...
...Peace. An uneven but brilliantly pictorial treatment of Tolstoy's great novel, with some of the best battle pieces ever seen on film; with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer (TIME, Sept...